Buffer-block for illuminating-projectiles.



m. 657,248. 'Patentedsept. 4-, I900.

- n. T. PHILLIPS BUFFER BLOCK FOR ILLUMINATING' PBOJECTILE SL (Application filed Dec. 8, 1 889.)

(No Model.)

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RicnARn'r. PHILLIPS, or BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR or ONE- HALF TO ERNST J. KNABE, JR., OF SAME PLACE.

BUFFER-BLOCK FOR lLLUMlNATlNG-PROJECTILES.

SPEClFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 657,248; dated September 4, 1900.

Application filed December 8,1899. Serial No. 739.6%. (N0 model.) I

T0 at whom 236 may concern.-

lle it known that T, RICHARD T. PHILLIPS, a-citizen ol' the United States, residingat Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buffer-Blocks for Illuminating-Projectilcs, of

whiehthe following is a specification. v

This invention relates to a buifer-block for that class of illuurinating-projectiles which which are uppermost when the projectile is When firing the pro.

floating in the water. jcctilc from a gun, a block is-required to separate the end of the projectile from the This block is termed a bullcnbloclc.

My invention consists of a novel form of buitenbloek.

Referring "to the drawings, Figure '1 is a side view of an illumimating-projectile, partly in section at one end, where the buffer-block is applied. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the butler-block,- Fig. is an end view of same.

.The letter A des gnates the body of the shell, which contains gas-producing material and having at one end burnersfi' This end is shown insection. \Vhen theshell is floating in the water, the burner end is uppermost and the burners are exposed. My improved bull'cr-block C-is designed to cover the burner end of the projectile and to pro tcct the burners when, the projectile is being fired froii'rtho gun.

flhc bull'cnbloclt, is composed of two inde p ndent members (Z c,.separated from' each otherby a suitab e elastic or yielding member, thereby to cushion the impact caused by the (wplosiml ol the powder. The block memble'rit 4 covers or fits over the burner end ot'the pro-' the two members.

jcclile. In the prcsentinstanco this member-has arim-llango g, which slips over the "contracted cud ol' thc shell A. This riniflange forms a cavity in the block, arid the end of the shell takes into said cavity. The

otherblock member r is a more disk and is: separated from the first member by a packing' of elastic material It interposed between This elastic material may end a buffer-blockcomprising two,cylindric two members (I 6 together the elastiemate- 6o rial 71 will yield.

It'will now be understood that with this improved buffer-block covering the end of an illuminating-shell the burners thereof will be protected-from the charge-of powder; em- 65. V

ployed infiring the gun and the impact of the explosion will be cushioned on the projectile. This block will drop off Orseparate from the projectile while the latter is making its flight through the air.

It is to beunderstood that my invention includes any preferred form of spring or elastic contrivance interposed between the two independent block members. a p

Having thus described my invention, wha I claim as new, and'desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- J T v 1. A buffer-block for projectiles to be fired from'a gun, comprising two cylindrical trembers each having on their adjoining faces an 80 annular groove-orie of said members pr'ovided on its end with a rim-flange, 'g, which forms a cavity; a ring of elastic material. fiti ted-in said grooves and between said menibers; and means to connect the two mernbers' so as to allow one to yield relative to the other. 1

2. The combination of an illuminating-projectile having burners projecting from one independent members with elastic 'material interposed between them, and one of saidmembers provided on its end with a. r1m

ilange, g, which forms a cavity and takes over the end ofthe projectile and protects thefl. burner from'injury when the projectilefisfgjfg fired from the gun.

ol. two -witnesses. a RICHARD 'l. lll lLl'LlP-S.

In testimony whorcof l 'allix my signature in the presence 

